Frankenstein tournament

The analogy of Frankenstein's monster was first recorded on the HSQB forums in March 2010, in reference to both the IHSA production process of the time and to that year's Harvard International set, and has remained a part of quizbowl terminology ever since. This term refers to a question set produced by subject editors working with little to no coordination among each other or supervision from a central chief editor, whose work is simply "patched together" into a final set, often resulting in jarring swings of difficulty, style, etc. from one category to another. In addition to the effect this has on the actual players of the tournament, it can often be difficult for set writers, who may be given a dizzying array of subdistributions and procedures from different editors instead of a single standardized workflow.

This term can be considered interchangeable with a siloed tournament production process.